Draft:Robert van Eyck

Robert Floris van Eyck ('s-Gravenhage, 3 May 1916 — Ashford, 19 December 1991) was a Dutch-British poet, sculptor, painter and art restorer.

Biography
Van Eyck was a son of the Dutch poet and professor Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck (1887-1954) and Nelly Benjamins (1891-1971). He is a brother of the architect Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999). He spent part of his youth in London, where his father was a correspondent for the NRC between 1920 and 1935. In 1941 and 1944, two of his English poetry collections were published by the publisher A.A.M.], who was a friend of his father. Stols. He was also a sculptor, painter and restorer. He married Princess Christina of Hesse (1933-2011), daughter of Prince Christoph of Hesse (1901-1943) and Princess Sophia of Greece and Denmark in his then hometown of London in 1962. (1914-2001); A daughter and a son were born from this marriage, which dissolved in 1986. Through his marriage he became the brother-in-law of Prince Karl of Hesse (1937) who married a stepdaughter of the Dutch diplomat Mr. Godert Willem Baron de Vos van Steenwijk (1895-1940). Van Eyck died in Ashford at the age of 75.